U.S. Congressmen to Investigate UNRWA Schools for Inciting Terrorism

The Jerusalem Post reports: Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are going to begin investigating incitement to terrorism in the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools using material provided by a Jerusalem based research center, its director told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

“Congress is going to begin an official investigation of UNRWA using some of our material to look at creating new standards for the organization,” said David Bedein, director of the Jerusalem based Center for Near East Policy Research.

“While they cannot defund or get rid of UNRWA, which is ensconced in the UN,” they can advocate changes be made, said Bedein, who also heads the Center’s affiliated Israel Resource News Agency, established in 1987.

Bedein sees getting rid of the agency as unrealistic and so is pushing for reform, particularly with its education system which promotes “war with Israel.”